A Journal Page in the Style of Fauvism

With a day to spare I have finished the last page in my weekly art journal for 2018 based on Nina Ribena's Art Journal Prompts and More.  The weekly prompts are shared each Sunday, so the first prompt for 2019 will be revealed tomorrow.  The global prompt for November was Art Movements and week three was Fauvism.  Having done a little research I loved the bright and unexpected colours used by this movement.  I decided to use a stencil as the basis of my page, as I wanted to focus on colour rather than trying to draw something myself.

WOYWW 480: Campsite Desking

A very quick share today (check out Julia's mother site for more desks).  We are off camping in York and will be returning home tomorrow.  Hopefully the boys will have left the house in one piece!

My desk is a camping table. I have brought some colouring with me, but haven't done a great deal. 

We found a fabulous shop in the Shambles for journal and paper lovers.  Hubby has bought me a gorgeous leather bound journal for my birthday but I won't be sharing it until the actual day next Wednesday.  He said that I might as well pick something that I wanted lol.

Shop just to the right of photo.

We have visited the Railway Museum and the Castle Museum, just avoided torrential rain and driven out to Goathland (Aidensfield in Heartbeat), Whitby of Dracula fame and back via Scarborough.  We may visit Castle Howard today as we are heading home tomorrow.  Of course rain overnight is the forecast!

Victorian Street at Castle Museum

There was a display of small hearts and the artwork created from them in the Great War exhibit at the Castle Museum.  Very moving and some spectacular examples.

I have a very small window of opportunity each day to go online when we call at McDonald's for our morning coffee, so I won't be visiting any desks until we get back.  Have a great week everyone.  I have just realised that it is the 3rd anniversary of my first blog post; who would have thunk it lol!

Three Way Overlay Stamps on an Oxide Background.

Having experimented with the new set of Distress Oxides to create backgrounds on tags (see HERE), I felt that the four colour combinations that I had come up with represented the four seasons perfectly.  I have also been playing around with the Claritystamp three way Floral Friends overlay stamps, thanks to a wonderful workshop with Maria Moorhouse.  I decided to combine the two.  Unfortunately I have been unable to finish the Autumn and Winter tags, as the season stamps for those are not yet available from Claritystamp.

Journal52 Week 18: Mother

This page was created using the prompt 'Mother' given by Effy Wild on her page Journal52.  The group and links to the rest of the prompts can be found HERE.

End of School Year!

The school year ended yesterday and I finally have some time to blog again.  I seem to have spent the last few weeks on a never ending track of reports, school residential visit, being ill and catching up with marking!  Now I can finally relax, if only for a few days, before I start on the planning and paperwork ready for September.  It's also the time of year when we say goodbye to colleagues who are moving on to pastures new or retiring and over the next few days I'd like to share some of the cards that I made to help say farewell.
The first card was made for the Y7 and Y8 pupils to sign for a well liked and respected pastoral leader.  He will be very much missed and we all wish him well in his retirement.

Zentangled Christmas Trees

This Personal Impressions Zendoodle Trees stamp is ideal for zentangling.

Any simple stamp with large plain areas can be zentangled (they can also be stamped onto patterned paper and paper pieced).

I like the fact that each tree is already divided into interesting shapes which sometimes help with ideas for a suitable zentangle pattern.  Some of the patterns I drew were ideas I had seen online, and some grew from the shape that they had to fill - such as the triangular shapes in the tree to the far right.

Once I had finished zentangling, I cut out the stamped image leaving a narrow white border and stuck it to red mirricard.  I then decided to use a Spectrum noir pencil which matched the background to pick out some of the zentangled details.  I matted the red mirricard onto white card and then onto black leaving a narrow border.  The whole thing was stuck onto an A4 card folded in half (A5 landscape); a small peel off greeting was the finishing touch - coloured red to match the key background colour.